The Muskegon (Mich.) Surgery Center, a joint venture between Mercy Health Partners and the Orthopedic Associates of Muskegon, will open for business in fall, according to a report by the Muskegon Chronicle.
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A 14,000 square-foot, $3.9 million orthopedic and sports medicine surgery center is planned for construction in Bellevue, Wis., according to a report in the Press-Gazette.
Jose Luis Perez of Golden Beach, Fla., and Reinaldo Guerra of Miami have been indicted in a $179 million Medicare fraud scheme, according to a report in the South Florida Business Journal.
The Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hospital has paid $3.2 million to Medicare to settle allegations that the hospital improperly billed the program for unnecessary inpatient hospital admissions from April 1998 to April 2006, according to a report in the New Haven…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released three National Coverage Determinations, which state that CMS will not pay for surgical errors.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released its proposed payment rate and policy changes for ambulatory surgery centers and hospital outpatient departments for Jan. 1, 2010, according to a CMS news release.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has several announced proposed changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for 2010, which are expected to reduce payment rates to physicians by 21.5 percent, according to a CMS news release.
The 12 hospitals and 21 surgery centers in Rhode Island have agreed to a new surgical protocol to prevent wrong-site surgery errors, according to a report in The Providence Journal.
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, Md., has agreed to pay $2.75 million to the United States Government to settle allegations that the hospital submitted false claims to federal healthcare programs, according to a news release from the United…
CareFusion Corp., the company that will become public following the planned spinoff of Cardinal Health's clinical and medical products businesses, recently launched its new brand and marked the occasion by providing opportunities for its global employees to volunteer for non-profit…